Cauliflower rice ingredients Anyone following us will know we are keen on healthy and low carb eating. A while ago I was browsing through Rose Elliot’s cookbook – ‘The Vegetarian Low-Carb Diet’ and came across Cauliflower Rice. I just had to try it. It was so quick and easy to make that I have used …
Secret pleasures of being vegetarian!
Pumpkin fritters, gem squash and salad NO! Whatever you are thinking – it isn’t that. Something much more basic and down to earth: Simply – NO GREASE! Which means – No greasy oven to clean. No smelly kitchen waste bin. The washing up is a doddle…. and….. …….we save a fortune on washing up liquid! …
Holland – self catering on the waterways
Kampen – Holland – Monday Market We are always happiest self catering when we travel. And it was no different this time while we cruised the Dutch waterways on our hired motor cruiser. Have a look at our boating holiday in Holland We did venture up to the towns, but more often that not, the …
Travelling vegetarian – Holland
Amsterdam! We fared (pun intended) better than anticipated here. We spent one night in an hotel in Amsterdam before heading off on our boat on the waterways, (which I will cover in the next post) and three nights in a self catering apartment in the city centre afterwards. Bagels and Beans – Vegetarian Restaurant in …
Salad days are here again!
Warm winter salad Eating healthily out here in the North Sea is not particularly inspiring! Give them their due, they do try – but the selection is limited. Munching my way through the ‘same old’ lettuce, tomato, onion and peppers, I could not help remembering the wonderfully tasty and ‘different’ salads that Karen has come …
Soy burgers
Homemade Soy Burgers We visited a friend a while ago for a braai (barbeque), and he produced the most wondeful vegetarian burgers! “Where did you buy these?” we asked. ” I made them” said Paul. We were most impressed as they were very tasty, and I have to say, a lot better than the usual …
Tasty and healthy snack
Oatcakes Here we are back offshore again. It is not all that easy eating healthily in this environment. The meals are always heavily meat orientated, loads of pasta, rice and potatoes, not to mention the desserts like apple crumble or bread and butter pudding. I was thus reminded of a tasty and healthy snack we …
Protein rich winter soup
Butternut and sweet potato soup The other day, being the shortest day of the year and thus exactly the middle of winter, together with being rather chilly, it seemed like a good idea to make a warming winter soup. This one I made up as I went along with whatever we had in the house. …
Tofu and Stir Frys
Spicy Eggplant and Tofu Stir-fry We were visiting a friend of Karen’s the other day, and guess what? – Discussing healthy eating! The usual comment – that it is difficult to know how to eat healthily, particularly when you come home from work and need to knock up a meal. So yes – you resort …
More Low Carb
Vegetarian patties Well – Karen has numerous low carb vegetarian cookbooks it would appear. Spent some time browsing them and found a lovely recipe for vegetarian burgers or patties. I replaced the ordinary green beans with edamami beans, to improve the protein content. The original recipe came from the book ‘CARB Conscious vegetarian’, which has …